#185 Deprescribing Psychotropic Medications with Dr Mark Horowitz

Dr Mark Horowitz is a training psychiatrist, split between UK and Australia, working in London as a Clinical Research Fellow in the NHS and an Honorary Clinical Research Fellow at University College London. He has completed a PhD in the neurobiology of depression and the pharmacology of antidepressants at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College London and for this received two prizes from the British Association of Psychopharmacology. He is also the lead author of the recently published Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines, a handbook on how to safely stop psychiatric drugs.

AJGP article Antidepressant prescribing in general practice: A call to action

Royal College of Psychiatrists "Stopping anti-depressants" guidance

YouTube video for patients

NICE guidelines: Depression in Adults Treatment and Management

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